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(No Model.) E. A. PpHENNlG;

MEDICINE MEASURING BOTTLE.

, I -691.967. Patentd Oct. 30, 1888.

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11 U T DT STATES I AiEENF-r rion ERNs-rnimnnnPAUL iinvnmo, or DREsnEn, sn jtijm' oniniA-Nn MEDlCiNE-M-EASURING BoiT si i 1 i SPECIFICATION form'n'ifipart of Iiett r s Piient N 891.967, dated @ntoberSQ, i888. I i Ap plicnfi o'n filed-Jill 11!, Q98. Serial Nn -2i0,F83. (No model.)

To all whom, it mag concern: gc.

Be it; known QIHIPILERNST ALFREI3? 1 1m; HENNIG, of 'DrcsdcmSaxony, Germany, have inventedcertainncwand nsefnl Improvements in MedicineMeasnri'n'g' Bottles, of which the following is a. specification. I This inventiomr elatcs to ccrtainincw' and useful improvements in dviccsfor measuring medicines; 9

&c., whichmeasnring device is olso to-be used for, a shopper for the bottle. i The invcnt-ion .con'sistsin' cup jprovided with a holly-shapedhollow cxtension in corn- 2, and}? mo crossscctionnllviwsof-iahc n'ppcr parts of bottles and. diii'erenb' constructions ofmunicaiaion with sai'dicnp, the cu p "serving as a 'stoppcrfor the bottl nndihe extension is a,

gageor measure for thc m cdicincgfi 1 pa'nyin'g drawings, Figures '1',

in the go-com my improved combined measuring device and If dosh-cc], tlic dismcter of the cup A may be less than that; of the bottle-neck, so than the snid'cdp can be placed into the neck for the purposc'of closing tho-bottle, asshownin Fig. 3. 1

As'shown in Figs. 2 and 2%, biieop'oning cZ,

estnblishingjcommnnicaision biqwci'ithe cup A and extension 0, maybcarra'n'ged some dis itince above thciiotton of theicn'p A.

The-device is used in the foilowingmanner:

The inverted cnp is p'ln'ccdonorfin the bot tlc-ncck in the man'ncrshoivn in Figs. '1, 2; or

rgc mbicspooni'nhasmay-' v3, andiihe botig-le inciined so that; ike iiqnid I flows from the same info thc' bi-iib'v-sh'apcd extensionfl, which is ofi snch si'zc ifillefll it cont-him; :2} certain uantity-of imcdi cine-for exnmpicfn,fieaespoonini,or -a small;

that when i,

'20. stoppcn onsaid bottles. Figs. 1,'2', =md.3;

a'rccross-sectional views of the different constructions-(lithe combined measuring devii'c and'stoppcr, showingihenrinverted and in the position'they lnwe'whcti the medicine is 2 5 to be poured out of thcsaincl- Similar-letters of reference indicate corrc sponding parts. 1- 1 The cup A, madcof glass, metal, or other 'snitable'maberisl, is provided Within lip, e, 0' anda bulb-shaped hollow extension, 0, which is onlyin communication with the, cup A at; the bOiiCOlll Of Lhc extension, said. extension being inclined upward and outward, and tho npcrtnre d establishing communication be; tween the con Anndthc cxtjcnsion.,, The bot: tom or the cup A is thickencd,la's 1161:, for tho purpose pf-weighting said botfiom vand giving -thc-mcasi1ring device stabiiitmand also for.- t'ho pnrpose of i'nrnishinga smooth-under side: for saidnbottonn sothat when the measuring device isiplncjcd upon a supportsuch 4 .a table; &c. '-.it-will si;a nd brneand cvcna'nd hot cup A and boiatlc-neckfii'ows back into the bot tic; but-tho rcquirod dosc remains in thc cxtension 0. The 'niensnring device is siren re moved from the hotiio-n'cclc nnd'pluced'on iisba'semhcn t-hc dose offimedicinleflows fronithe i bulb-shaped extension 6 .intotihe (nip A, and can readily e poured into :i'cnpfor can b8 tziken'direc'tiy fromf iie cup AL;

\Nhe'n the'cxt ension C is conn'ooicd with the cup A some distance abovc the-bonompf said cup fail the medicine flows from'ihecxtensionj" G into me bottom porn-A of thecup A; 'andl-" none whatever remains in. the @exhension' G; whcrcas in the construction shown in Figs. 19 and 3 the mcdic'inehas about} the same level in'thc cup and extension C'wh'on lzhc'incasnring device is in =tlne position for pouring the n'v'dioinn('jii'lioi' the some; a q

. lfidcsi r'e'dii hobotblq-neck outline. mr'iiignea j vice m'ayabcprovidcd with external or internal -go sci'eivfthrcads to" pein of-scrc'n'ing on the coinbi ned mmsui-i ng' dcvicc and stoppo'ifl."

Hnving'tinis describcd my'in'vcntjionil claim as nchrnnd desire in secure-by Letters Pntcnb+.

n ri htpositi'onthe mdicinereniainin in the o P g g 7 position on; the bottle-nook, and; ivliciohyihd 0! a cup provided withii bnlbkshaped. sion in communication with the on v "or less distance froniihc boitom'of -th'c'sam'o,

s nb'smntialiy as.iicrcin'shownand described;

1. A: mcdicincmcasnring devicecomposcd 1 5 p atogrca'ior,

":2. A niedicinc-nicnsuring dcvicecoinpoaod foo of a cup provided with a bulb-shaped exten- In testimonythatlelaim the foregoing as my sionin communication with the cup ata greater invention I have signed my name in presence I or less distance from the bottom of the same, of two subscribing witnesses. the bottom of said cup being thickened, suh- 5 stantially as herein shown and described. I ERNST ALFRED PAUL HENNIG.

3. The combination, with a bottle, of a cup oh the neck of the same and a hollow bulh- Witnesses: shaped extension on said cup, which extension RUD. SOLMIDT, is in communication with the cup, snbstan- PAUL DRUomriiLLEn.

10 daily as herein shown and described. 

